Ling was equally good at school. Less because of learning or college but because she is insanely competitive. Her best subjects were anything in STEM. Unlike Ang, she placed all her plans on becoming Golden Dragn and didn't have much interest in school activities or future plans.

In fact, the twins were kinda in the middle in the popularity chain. They were interesting because they were smart, good-looking and athletic but they were also intimidating and "weird" because of how much time they spent at the dojo and martial arts training. They had friends but they were more like school friends which they didn't associate with outside of class cuz again, dojo/guardian training take up a lot of time.

They did go on a few dates but it never went anywhere. Ang because his choices were superficial and he'd find out that they had nothing in common or they were using him for status points. Ling because she's intimidating or the guys were just as arrogant as her and they'd clash.

When the twins were little, they had looked on Master Chin as a father figure but as they grew older that dynamic cooled and they saw him as just another authority figure. One that cared but nothing paternal. Master Chin never saw them as his children but strictly as his proteges though he does care for them in his own way.

Ang and Ling hadn't known they were descended from the former dragon and ram guardians. They had been told their parents were fellow martial arts teachers and died in a car accident.

When their mom starts regaining their memory, Ang is a bit disappointed that their mom isn't the badass warrior she used to be and how awkward it is trying to bond with her. He lived so long without needing parental guidence or her support, he doesn't know how to act with her.

Ling feels awkard because she doesn't want to tell her mother about all the awful things she's done like teaming up with the man who killed their father/her husband. She's sure that if her mom knew, she'd hate her. She's also dealing with the whole never needing parental support and now they suddenly have someone. How do you confide with a mother who you don't even know and she doesn't remember you?

There should just be an episode dealing with these familial problems.

Bengal had been brought to the dojo as an orphan. Intitally she was just going to be another one of many trainees and martial arts experts but then the tiger guardian saw her spirit and decided to train her to succeed her. Bengal would come to entirely devote herself to the guardians, seeing they as her community, giving her a purpose and a family. Because of that she chose to be home-schooled and would become the youngest guardian at 16. Then Ming would displace her when she became rat guardian at 12.

Bengal was a childhood friend of the twins but her crush on Ang developed more gradually. While she's all things guardian, she is attracted to how Ang is so much part of the outside world-how he wants to travel, his interst in film. He's so creative and entusiastic and caring. He has a lighter side to her more pessimistic black and white view that she appreciates even if it annoys her. And she finds his jokes hilarious or at least, hilariously endearing.

Ang has feelings for Bengal, he just doesn't know it yet. He's still holding out for Karen Kwan lol.

I like to hc that they do get together eventually. Probably in the middle of a dramatic, near death battle that makes Ang realize how much she matters to him. Or he's dying and Bengal can't hold back her feelings any longer.

Or less dramatically but he gets jealous of K-Ho and Bengal's friendship. He says it's because he doesn't trust K-Ho and it's wrong if he's playing with Ling's feelings. But ooo, he's jealous. And Ling is also jealous. She thinks that K-Ho and Bengal together would be too staid and serious as a couple, but she's internally worried that K-Ho is attracted to Bengal's maturity and disicipline that Ling lacks.

K-Ho and Ling would also get together eventually in much less dramatic means. They go on a regular date and just continue on. But their dates are always interesting from motorcycling across the Great Wall to meditation and yoga. He calms her darker side yet challenges her to be better.

Xuan Chu and his family really did live in the jungle. They were a anthropologist and zoologist respectively and lived among the apes like Jane Goodall. Unfortunately, they died from maleria or some other jungle disease early on when Xuan Chu was 12, and he continued to live with the gorillas until he caught the notice of one of the guardians and he was chosen to be trained as the monkey guardian as he best exemplified the spirit.

Initially, Ling had been invested in being the Golden Dragon for altruistic means. But it should be noted that even when she was little, she had always been more interested in the Golden Dragon's heroic exploits and glory rather than the whole helping people that was at the root of the Dragon's actions. As her skills improved, her ego would get the best of her and influence her negative mindset of entitlement and power-hungry instincts.

Ang's choice to be Golden Dragon is driven by purer means of helping the world and keeping it in balance from darker forces.

Bengal is driven by her feelings of gratitude toward the guardians as well as a fierce sense of order and justice.

Xuan Chu is driven by the responsibility placed on him, the utter trust of those above him that he could succeed that he never felt from anyone else before. It's part of the reason why he feels like such a failure when he loses the band.

I've seen from one another Legend of the Dragon fan saying that Ling should have stayed the Shadow Dragon in keeping with the whole yin-yang balance theme and I kinda like the idea. I also like Ling's golden dragon design too.

So to reconcile these two, I'd have season 2 but a season where Ling tries to redeem herself from her previous actions as the Shadow Dragon. Yet she remains her snarky, self-absorbed self at times. More anti-hero than hero compared to her brother.

Meanwhile, the season would have Ang facing the darker parts of himself like his suspicious nature, his desire to be the sole hero and leader, his desire to abandon the post so he could have the normal life he had before; his unwilling to let others take the spotlight since he's used to being the sole leader before Ling become co-dragon. He's not a psycho like Ling during her shadow dragon phase but his darkness is potent and makes him question his ability to be golden dragon.

It would end with Ang and Ling realizing that to bring balance in the world, they must accept they have both yin and yang in themselves. It's not possible to be all good or all bad.

Eventually, Ang regains his confidence as Golden Dragon and Ling decides to become the Shadow Dragon again. This time inspired by K-Ho's example of being a neutral evil force of balance instead of destructive power as she was before and confident that she can reign her dark side.

So the twins continue to fight by each other's side as Golden and Shadow Dragons. Though if the situation arises they can become co-Golden or co-Shadow Dragons. That would have been a cooler power upgrade instead of that cartoonish two-headed dragon from the finale.

Also Xuan Chu would become human again and get his armband. Idk how but I wish season 2 resolved that.